05-15-2025, 03:45 PM
(05-15-2025, 03:38 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: BTW, looking back to that 2011 era. The Mavs really didn't have many guys who excelled on creating off the dribble. They were so good though getting their players to their right spot and always got good shots on their possessions.
Right, but to the point of the conversation we're having, they DID have a player who excelled at creating coming off of screens - JET! He was one of the better pick and roll guards in the league at that time, and that style of play was much less prevalent then than it is now.
I hate to beat people over the head with this, but I really think to understand what they're thinking, we need to understand how they want to play offense.
For example, we here are probably more qualified to predict what the Lakers will try to do this summer than Lakers fans, because WE know how LUKA is telling them he wants to play, moving forward.
Kyrie is not a pick and roll player. FAR from it. If the plan is to play him at PG when healthy, something he has done almost none of since coming here, btw, then they aren't going to be a pick and roll team anymore. Period. AD isn't really a screen setting style of player, either, so maybe the plan is to move away from that style. But, and people keep blowing this off, but I promise there's something to this, that leaves the fit of Lively and ESPECIALLY Daniel Gafford feeling EXTREMELY awkward here.
Personally, I feel like I need to see the first domino fall before I have my head wrapped around all of this.